Learn to Love Again God's Way

I can’t think of a more appropriate day to talk about the Neighborhood Nip Foundation other than today, on the birthday of Nipsey Hussle. The Neighborhood Nip Foundation is an organization that supports activities that help South LA youth reach their full potential. I attended a Back to School Giveaway in partnership with the Think Watts Foundation, who also is doing good things for the children…

Reflection: God Cares For You Are you spending enough time alone with God? You can cast all your cares on him. I see the fisherman fishing on the sea in the early morning dawn casting their nets for a draught. That’s exactly what you can do, tell God everything on your mind, and watch Him work on your behalf. Concentration: Leaving the Gang Behind to Be Alone What possibly could a seal be…

My visit to West Angeles Church of God in Christ, my own church family since 2001. Before the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed, I joined West Angeles Church of God in Christ. I was working in the Hollywood Hills at a real estate company out of their home. My co-workers and I were talking previously, and I told them I was looking for a church to attend. One of my co-workers visited West…

Reflection: For Your Consideration, All Is Vanity Today’s meditation is live from the hills of California, taking a break from the ocean. It asks you to consider your own wealth, materialism, vanity. Think about what it is you have accomplished.  Concentration: Tough Question About Betterment Now, think about whether you are any better for it? That’s the question the word of God asks. Here’s a…

I have heard the voice of the Lord since I was a little girl. That’s part of my Love Again LA journey, voyage, if you will. My coming to Los Angeles was the will of God I received through meditation. I’ll share more in my upcoming book on meditation, The Meditation Model, as the days go on. I decided to go to the ocean yesterday, and I believe my steps were ordered by the Lord. That’s in the…

Reflection: Enjoying the Beauty of the Earth How can you recognize the beauty of the earth without ascribing its glory to The Creator of Heaven and Earth? When observing majestic mountains, if you don’t think about God who made the mountains, you don’t really understand their majesty at all. Concentration: No More Tolerance to Evil Dictatorship The meditation leads us to the acknowledgement of…

I would like to discuss an enlightening outing at Ralph’s Grocery Store. I decided to stop by the grocery store one day coming from the beach to get some goodies. I briefly talked to a man in the checkout line. A song was playing. The song was from Bill Withers and Grover Washington, Just the two of us… We can make it if we try. Just the two of us, you and I. I said, “Those are some really good…

Concentration: Thinking About What You Have to Say Have you ever had a hard conversation where you had to think about how you were going to say it? How you’re going to tell them? How you’re going to let them down easy? How you’re going to say something that you knew they wouldn’t take the right way?  That’s what today’s meditation is here to help you do, focus on what you will say in a way that…

I am an artist. This is what the Lord told me. “Sing, write, draw, you are the artist. Heal.”  That’s what I am doing and have been doing over the years in various ways. However, I want to share my art, draw and paint more. All these gifts have been lying dormant inside me for so long. There’s a reason why, and I’ll be sharing that in my artwork and in my paintings in life. This first piece is…

In today’s meditation, I followed a little birdie. Even though you don’t see it at the beginning, I promise it’s there. The little bird is there. When I changed the aspect ratio of the video, it got a little chopped off at the beginning. However, toward the end, you will see the little birdie.  I really love this meditation, which stems from Matthew chapter 6, verse 26, where Jesus says, “Behold…

I met a New Orleans native named Anisha and her friend for coffee while she was visiting Los Angeles. We reconnected over the city of New Orleans, a native New Orleanian who shared a love for the city as I have over the years. We had a progressive meeting and a thoughtful conversation drinking coffee at La Provence Patisserie in Beverly Hills.  We were very excited to see each other since we…

I met a Turkish man, a man from Turkey, the other day. He was visiting the United States for soccer games. We had a conversation coming from our next departure. He’s a very kind man. We talked, and he started opening up to me about faith. I don’t even really understand how we even got on the topic of faith, but I loved it, and I was like, ‘Wow, how did we get here?’  Somehow we were talking…

Love Again LA sounds really idealistic, “Oh, love again. Yes, of course, everyone wants to do it.” It’s like Fantasy Land, or La La Land, as they call Hollywood, which is part of Los Angeles. But the concept of love again is more of an uphill battle than you think. It doesn’t seem real or attainable. I’ll explain to you. Jesus says that the love of the world is going to grow cold because of…

Love is underrated. Love is so special and needed. You desire love. Yet, you don’t always give it out. Maybe you’ve had those times when you felt hurt or used, or maybe you were the one on the side of causing the pain or turmoil. Either way, you needed someone to love you. Instead, someone came and abused you, misused you, talked about you, betrayed you.  These are human frailties, sins that we…

In Matthew chapter 12, verse 36, Jesus says, “I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” Since we know that your words are going to be judged, we also know that somehow, somewhere, there’s a record of your words in someone’s book, computer system, or data-base. God is keeping record, and it has your name on it. So, be careful…

This meditation honestly was a little tough for me to understand at first. I was attempting to listen and understand that maybe I’m not feeling 100% today. But that doesn’t give me the right to put my selflessness onto others when they may need help themselves. That life really isn’t all about me.  Maybe it’s how I react to others. Maybe how I respond to others, how I interact and communicate…

Today’s meditation stems from a scripture in the book of Jude about spots and blemishes. That scripture came to my heart as I was wading in the ocean water looking at a red object stuck in the rocks. Some people are spots and blemishes just like this red object stuck in the ocean rocks. It clearly doesn’t belong.  I opened up the book of Jude in the Word of God and read verse 12 where it talks…